- Caption
- American soldiers view the Dachau death train.
The soldier on the left is Lt. Robert P. Teten.
- Photographer
- Byrd Helligas
- Date
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1945 April 29 - 1945 May 01
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Byrd Helligas
- Event History
- The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty railcars containing the bodies of between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners who were evacuated from Buchenwald on April 7, 1945. The train arrived in Dachau on the afternoon of April 28.
[Source: "Allemagne, avril-mai 1945: Photographies d'Eric Schwab." Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003, p. 52.]
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005162.